Like one who, having reached a strange place in a dream, upon waking does not find it, thus the liberated one does not see the body, having arrived at the nature of the Ātman.

[Note: Apparent duplication with verse 15 notwithstanding, distinct lexical nuances herein suggest textual variants; inclusion maintains fidelity to the received tradition.] The ātmatva—the nature of the Self—is not a state to be attained, but rather the nature recognized upon the cessation of superimposition (adhyāsa). The body that is “unseen” is the body as “mine”; the body as such continues to appear, yet it no longer constitutes the gravitational center of identity. This is the transmutation that tantra delineates as the “deity in every cell” (deha-siddha): the body is not abandoned, but rather divinized through recognition.